dutchie01

I am happy enough witht the satnav, it gets me to my destination with no obvious problems & seems accurate in warning of traffic jams. I have the upgrade (not ML) ice and it has good sound quality. No vibrations on my car at any speed and the mouse is better now I put the feedback level up to high. I suppose it depends on what car you had before. A colleague has just bought a E-Class coupe about the same age as my f-sport. It doesnt have satnav and is quite noisy being a diesel! Ed Hi Ed the ML soundsystem is disappointing as i am comparing it with the ML system i had in my IS250 2nd gen. that was 350 watts this 850 but the sound is much flatter you really have to turn up the volume to get some sound. at low volume it just cannot match my 250 system. the satnav works fine but the graphics are just ridiculously bad for a premium car. pacman is alive... it looks like 1995. BMW Merc and especially Audi are lightyears ahead in this and i honestly do not understand how a system like this can find its way in any lexus. the mouse is just not very user friendly. combine that with a complicated menu and it just looses attraction. if i want to look up a number and dial i do it with my i-phone as ten times faster.. still loove my IS300H haha. ( drove a BMW 320i for 2 yrs and got so bored i sold it again. the IS is way more interesting, more layered you have to discover this car over time and it keeps growing on me. i will make an appointment for the drivetrainvibrations. drive tastefully!

i drove a base model IS 300h from 2014 for 3 weeks until my new IS300h F-sport was ready so i can compare the 2. I first noticed the strange noise combined with vibrations from the diveshaft? when driving on the highway in heavy traffic doing 40/50mph for at least 20km. the engine is humming just over idle rpm and the system constantly switches between petrol and electric. when the petrol kicks in the sound is there and oh boy did that het irritate. mainly because the cabin is so quiet ( i recently drove a jag xkr 8cyl convertible and when you accellerate it vibrates, rattles, sniffs, shakes but here it is called character... ). from that moment on i always noted that sound and i could onluyhope my car would be better. and it is. the new 2015 does have it but much shorter. it is more or les bearable. but is still wonder why Lexus brought this car to market with this phenomena. i sometimes think it was marketed too soon and development was not finished yet.. i am sure they knew and maybe that is also the reason the IS300H is not for sale in the states?..

good styling - buildquality - torque - cabin - seats - chassis - mpg. could be better Satnav - ML sounddsystem - Drivetrain Vibrations - Mouse